2025
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When it rains …
Oct 20
Planning for an AWS outage might seem like overkill until you need to evacuate vacation rental guests during a tropical storm and your entire infrastructure goes dark. Sometimes the improbable becomes critical, and understanding your business continuity options can mean the difference between frustration and tragedy.
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Finding Balance: Building Scalable Systems While Paying the Bills
Jun 30
Engineering leaders face a constant tension: building the perfect, scalable system versus shipping products that generate revenue. Learn how successful technical leaders navigate this balance, keeping engineering excellence in sight while delivering business value that keeps the lights on.
2022
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Technology cost analysis
Feb 10
Cost analysis can be a tricky exercise in the technology space as not all costs are readily apparent during price shopping.
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Find it, buy it, build it
Jan 19
How expensive is the open source tool you’ve found? How about the managed, hosted, SaaS alternative? Should you build your own instead?
2014
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No Excuses
Dec 15
If I’ve learned anything over my career thus far, it’s that we come up with the stupidest excuses to not do something.
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Disruptive Innovation
Dec 9
Real innovation is rare. Once a company, individual or organization launches an innovation and achieves mainstream success they back off a bit. They start playing it safe. They start giving in to the needs of a market’s vocal demands.
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Above and Beyond
Aug 20
In a world where even luxury goods are treated as commodities, finding a way to distinguish your enterprise from others is vital to success.
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The Best Laid Plans
Jul 30
We planned everything down to the last detail; the outing still resulted in frustration and failure.
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How Much is Enough?
Jul 21
Is meeting an objective not enough?
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Someday is the Enemy of Progress
Jun 11
If you plan to reach your goal “someday,” it’s a dream. Not an objective.
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Making the Decision for Open Source
Jun 10
At some point in your career, you might find yourself weighing the pros and cons of open source as it relates to your business.